Deen troubles connect with insult that goes back to slavery days

1:59 PM,
Jun. 29, 2013

Cocoa rapper Tray Plus said use of the contracted N-word, or euphemisms are poetic expressions.

Written by

J.D. Gallop
FLORIDA TODAY

Rosemary McGill marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and witnessed racism first-hand but said one of her most telling encounters with the N-word happened as she sat in Rockledge traffic.

"I had just taken my granddaughters some food and come to a fork in the road. There was a car next to me and a noise so loud that it jarred my teeth," she recalled.

"It was music, with a black voice using the N-word, calling women (expletives) ... with five white kids bumping, jumping and grinding and just flailing their bodies. But who could I get angry with? The white kids? The rapper?" ...